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metlalli.

Headword: 
metlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a parcel of land with agaves (e.g. magueyes) growing on it (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

onpohuali yhuan eeyn bara yn metlali = 43 varas de tierra de agave (San Agustín Acolman, 1731)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 202–203.

themes: 
Land Tenure
Plants, Trees, Flora